Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Indian Agriculture

The Indian agricultural sector is leveraging the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to disseminate the right information at the right time. The cost factor in face-to-face information dissemination and the difficulties in reaching the target audiences have necessitated the introduction of ICT in agriculture. This article discusses the different models related to ICT in Indian agriculture like, Kisan call centers, The Gyandoot project, Bhoomi project, Village knowledge centers, and AGMARKNET. In the end, the article discusses the barriers and the outlook of ICT in Indian agriculture.Information ,Agriculture

Spirituality, Productivity and Effective Management :Transforming a Business

If one wants to be competitive in this 21st Century, one should have the attitude to change and transform according to environment. Acquiring the right attitude to transform oneself, will result in increasing one’s productivity at the workplace.Spirituality, Productivity and Effective Management

Private Sector Participation in Indian Agriculture : An Overview

The share of private sector in capital formation in Indian agriculture is approximately three times more than the public sector. This shows the active involvement of the private agencies in the Indian agriculture sector.Indian Agriculture , Private Participation

Anomalous transport and phonon renormalization in a chain with transverse and longitudinal vibrations

We study thermal transport in a chain of coupled atoms, which can vibrate in longitudinal as well as transverse directions. The particles interact through anharmonic potentials upto cubic order. The problem is treated quantum mechanically. We first calculate the phonon frequencies self-consistently taking into account the anharmonic interactions. We show that for all the modes, frequencies must have linear dispersion with wave-vector $q$ for small $q$ irrespective of their bare dispersions. We then calculate the phonon relaxation rates $\Gamma_i(q)$, where $i$ is the polarization index of the mode, in a self-consistent approximation based on second order perturbation diagrams. We find that the relaxation rate for the longitudinal phonon, $\Gamma_x(q) \propto q^{3/2}$, while that for the transverse phonon $\Gamma_y(q) \propto q^2$. The consequence of these results on the thermal conductivity $\kappa(N)$ of a chain of $N$ particles is that $\kappa(N) \propto N^{1/2}$